nbsp; Many people may have a lot of resistance to Gao Hongsheng's intention to hang the British flag on the sea ship he bought.

But the reality is like that, think about what happened to the Russian Far East Fleet a few years later, you can know Gao Hongsheng's helplessness.

The reason why the British Empire is called the Rì Empire is that their colonies are all over the world, and no matter which direction the bright sun runs, there must be a ray shining on their land.

Where is the essence of a maritime empire? It was in his colonial ports overseas.

In those days when steam engines were rampant, ships had to be fueled with coal and water to run.

Britain's strength lies in its colonial port cities all over the world, and those ports are like relay points, weaving a large net over the blue ocean of the whole earth.

No country can match it, and no country has such a strong strength to lay out the whole world, even the United States, which was strong in later generations, cannot be compared with Britain before World War I, and there is no comparison at all.

If Britain doesn't let your ships anchor in his harbor, then you'll find yourself in a world where you can't move an inch.

During the Russo-Russian War, wasn't it because Rì was the younger brother of Britain that the Russian fleet that supported the Far East refused to provide it with port calls and supplies?

As a result, the Second Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy sailed thousands of miles without port supplies, circumnavigating half the world and sailing more than 18,000 nautical miles, which was simply a miracle.

Along the way, all the ports of neutral countries were closed to them, and even the damned British were stunned to close the Suez Canal to them, so that the Second Pacific Fleet had to make a detour to the Cape of Good Hope.

The mighty fleet, which had nowhere to resupply along the way, followed closely by a few daring German coal carriers, refueled them with coal bags, and held out until Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, to repair and join up with the Third Pacific Fleet.

Such a national fleet, which was very powerful at the time, fell to that point simply because of British dissatisfaction.

You let Gao Hongsheng now be a weak ant-like character, competing with the powerful Britain, he eats too much to find awkwardness with others.

But flying the British flag is different, it is really the world's big business, there is no need to worry about there is no port to dock, and you can resupply wherever you go.

You must know that at that time, cargo ships could only sail two or three thousand nautical miles at most, but they were not modern cargo ships that used diesel fuel, and there was no need to dock for seven or eight thousand nautical miles.

Before World War II, if you wanted to play the game of naval domination, without those pearl-like ports, it was simply nonsense.

I don't know what other people think, I just know that the reason why our Chinese navy is called the Yellow Water Navy is because of our deep helplessness, yes, we have no choice but to let the flowers fall, just because we started late.

We started too late, compared with those old capitalist empires, our global layout can be said to be nothing, even if we succeed in reaching the force of the blue water navy, but where are our overseas supply bases?

When our navy goes to sea, it doesn't even have a place to rest.

This is our eternal pain, a pain that cannot be resolved.

And the military bases of the United States all over the world are like nails, firmly nailing a big net to our heads,............。

Captain Aiken is done, and then the ship's armament can be blatantly arranged.

In fact, it didn't contain anything too powerful, it was just a few Green machine guns, and as for the famous Makqin heavy machine gun, don't be misled.

Hehe, at that time, Makqin was in the embryonic stage, and he was still using ** charge bullets, and the effect was not as good as the Green machine gun! It was only after the large use of smokeless gunpowder reloading ammunition in World War I that it became famous.

And the most important point is that when installed and used on a ship, the Makqin's thin weight is its weak point, which is far less stable than the heavy six-barreled Grimm machine gun on a ship.

Any weapon has its own specific method of use, and its application in one place does not mean that it is universal, and only in the right place and in the right way can the weapon be used to its maximum effectiveness.

In fact, the Makqin heavy machine gun was an advanced weapon in World War I, but it was outdated in World War II, but at that time, poor China was using a large number of cumbersome Makqin heavy machine guns.

That can only be said to be our helplessness, because the cháo stream at that time had changed from water-cooled machine guns to air-cooled machine guns.

And we are still using the extremely heavy Maxim machine gun as a target for the devil's mortar.

Four days later, in the morning, Gao Hongsheng and his party finally started their journey on Captain Aiken's "Crescent" steamship, which was also the first time Gao Hongsheng took a sea ship of this era.

As the owner, Gao Hongsheng is honored to be allowed to take a group of hidden seafarers to visit the entire Crescent.

As for the beauties who traveled to Europe with them, they were not so good, from less than an hour after leaving the mouth of Dagu, after admiring the magnificence and vastness of the blue sea, they are now lying or lying in the cabin and doing a hard battle against seasickness.

And a gang of bandits have long reached a consensus on these beauties.

Ay! Spit and spit and get used to it, you just spit out.

As a result, the beauties were completely ignored, let them vomit in the dark, weak and powerless, and one by one became soft-footed shrimp, obediently staying in the cabin.

Aiken's ship is indeed good, but in the eyes of Feng Laosi and other old sailors who have fought on relatively advanced warships at that time, it is also like that.

Especially when one of Feng Laosi's subordinates tried to steer the cāo rudder in a moment's time, Aiken found out that a group of old sailors had come to his ship. It was a few veterans who had been in the engine room, and after putting forward a few suggestions for transformation, Aiken secretly asked Gao Hongsheng privately about the origin of these yellow people that he had never seen with his eyes.

When Aiken heard that most of the people Gao Hongsheng brought on the ship were survivors of the tragic sea battle, he almost didn't fight him, thinking that he was insulting himself for not telling him where they came from.

A valiant sailor should not be treated with arrogance, but should be treated with full respect, even if their status on the ship is far above that of Gao Hongsheng.

As a result, the status of the sad Gao Hongsheng on the ship quickly declined, directly a little higher than those ladies, and he was completely reduced to a dispensable figure, until he demonstrated a new type of hot air balloon in a far away harbor to regain the respect of all the people on board.

(Hey!) Landmines are everywhere, and there are some things that I won't say deeply. Helpless. ）

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